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“Mrs. Stowe, by Uncle Tom, helped the American Slave more than any one human being ever did before.”

Crediting fiction with a moral force no sermon had matched in the fight against slavery · Letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, about 1861

About Theodore Tilton

Theodore Tilton

2 October 1835–29 May 1907

Theodore Tilton stands as one of America's most complex literary figures of the nineteenth century—a man whose poetry spoke to universal truths about the human condition while his personal life became entangled in one of the most scandalous trials of the Victorian era. Born on October 2, 1835, in New York City, and…

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